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Prisoners Faced Violent Hazing In Troubled Pennsylvania Jail by by Michael Rigby At least 50 prisoners entering Pennsylvania's Somerset County Jail over a 2-year period were beaten as part of a violent hazing ritual that went unchecked by jail authorities. This combined with serious overcrowding and a history of poor …
Titan Pays $28.5 Million After Pleading Guilty to Three Felonies by Titan Pays $28.5 Million After Pleading Guilty to Three Felonies by Matthew T. Clarke On March 1, 2005, Titan Corp., the largest private supplier of translators for the U.S. military, pleaded guilty to three felony charges and agreed to …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Report Details General Decline In Death Penalty Statistics For 2003 by Michael Rigby For most of the nation, 2003 was a year of declining death penalty statistics. That year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report, the number of death sentences imposed fell to a 30-year low, while …
Reliance Solely On Guard's Version of Incident Improper by In an unpublished decision, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the summary judgment dismissal of a prisoner's civil rights action against Michigan prison guards holding that the district court had erroneously relied on the guards' version of disputed fats. …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
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An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse:An Essay On Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective, by Jens Soering, Lantern Books, 2004, $12, 113 pages by An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse:An Essay On Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective, by Jens Soering, Lantern Books, 2004, $12, 113 …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Accounting Errors Plagued California Criminal Justice Agency by A defunct California agency charged with distributing grant money for crime prevention and victim aid may have cost the state millions in federal funds due to poor accounting practices, state auditors said on February 2, 2005. Lawmakers knew something was wrong at …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Parole Officers Not Absolutely Immune For Conduct Distinct From Parole Decisions by by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that California Department of Corrections (CDC) parole officers were not absolutely immune from suit by a former prisoner who alleged he was re-incarcerated because the officers …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Nevada Supreme Court Clarifies Personal Injury Exhaustion Requirements by The Nevada Supreme Court held that state prisoners seeking compensation for personal injuries are not required to allege exhaustion of their administrative remedies, nor does the failure to exhaust administrative remedies deprive the trial court of subject matter jurisdiction. Thomas Cotton, …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Raped New York Prisoner Awarded $25,000 by On August 17, 2004, a New York court of claims awarded $25,000 to a state prisoner who was raped in the shower. While imprisoned at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, Donald Ramos received a series of letters from another prisoner who was …
Pennsylvania Control Unit Newspaper, Magazine and Photo Ban Invalidated; Supreme Court Grants Review by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's decision upholding a Pennsylvania prison policy prohibiting a class of segregated prisoners from possessing newspapers, magazines and photographs. The U.S. supreme court granted review in the …
Dismissal of Failure to Protect Claim Reversed; No Showing Necessary to Survive Rule 12(b)(6) Dism by Dismissal of Failure to Protect Claim Reversed; No Showing Necessary to Survive Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of a civil committee's failure to protect and …
Article • October 15, 2005
Washington: County Pre-Trial Services Blew $400,000 In 2003 by In 2003, Pierce County, Washington's bloated Pre-Trial Services (PTS) wasted $400,000--nearly half of its 2004 budget of $809,000, according to a preliminary county audit. A division of the Sheriff Department's Corrections Bureau, PTS decides which criminal defendants are eligible for court …
Article • October 15, 2005
Court Allows Amendment, Adding New Defendants to Brutality Suit by The plaintiff sued over excessive force and now seeks to amend to add new defendants after the statute of limitations had run. Claims against new defendants relate back for limitations purposes only if they were not named because of a …
New Zealand Court of Appeals Upholds Prisoner's Conditions-of-Confinement Award by On September 11, 2005, the New Zealand Court of Appeals upheld and increased the award of compensation to a prisoner for having been held in unlawful conditions of confinement. Christopher Taunoa, a New Zealand prisoner who is serving a life …
Article • October 15, 2005
Many U.S. Prisoners Give Birth In Chains by Michael Rigby Childbirth is sacred in most cultures. But for many female prisoners in the U.S., the process can be cruel and degrading. According to a March 1, 2006, report by the human rights group Amnesty International U.S.A., 23 state prison systems …
Article • October 15, 2005
Certain Blood for Uncertain Reasons: Reinstating Capital Punishment in Vermont by by Michael Mello Seventeen winters ago, a man I loved as a father was murdered. A few days before Christmas 1989, a racist coward with a grudge mailed a shoebox- sized bomb to federal appellate Judge Robert S. Vance. …
Article • October 15, 2005
No Liberty Interest in Judicially Ordered Work Release by The plaintiff did not have a liberty interest in staying on work release, since his placement on work release was part of his criminal sentence, and the sentencing judge made the decision to remove him from work release. At 631: "Altering …
Habeas Hints: Overcoming Post-Conviction IAC by Kent A. Russell Habeas Hints by Kent A. Russell This column provides "habeas hints" to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys ("in pro per"). The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the …
Article • October 15, 2005
Seventh Circuit Reverses Indemnification for Guard's Abuse; Jury Awards $400,000 in Damages Against by Seventh Circuit Reverses Indemnification for Guard's Abuse; Jury Awards $400,000 in Damages Against Guard The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's order granting indemnification against Macon County, Illinois. The court found that a …
Article • October 15, 2005
A Spotty Record of Health Care For Children in City Detention by By PAUL von ZIELBAUER It was early February 2000, and Judge Paula J. Hepner said she could hardly believe what a doctor in the city's juvenile justice system had done to the girl standing before her in Brooklyn …
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